This Is How Many Instagram Followers Celebs Lost in the Great Purge of 2014

December 19, 2014 7:29 PM

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If your follower count went down suddenly, you are not alone. Instagram announced this week that they were doing a huge clean sweep of spam accounts, so any Instagram follower you had that was a bot or tha was inactive has been wiped out, or will be by the end of December. The account for Instagram itself lost over 18,000,000 followers.

"We're in the process of fixing an issue that incorrectly includes inactive or fake accounts in follower/following lists," the company wrote on its Help page. "We want to maintain the best possible experience on Instagram, so we do our best to remove spam, fake accounts and other people and posts th...